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Teaching Conceptual Understanding in Multilingual Classrooms - Juliette van Eerdewijk, Mindy McCracken

Teaching Conceptual Understanding in Multilingual Classrooms

Buch | Softcover
322 Seiten
2026
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
9781836682752 (ISBN)
CHF 69,75 inkl. MwSt
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This practical guide presents a concept-based curriculum designed to foster deep, enduring understanding for multilingual learners. With accessible theoretical explanations, classroom examples and sample lesson plans, it is ideal for pre-service and in-service teachers.
A practical guide combining theory and best teaching practices to enable teachers to support multilingual learners to reach a level of deeper, conceptual understanding.



This book guides educators through a concept-based curriculum designed to foster deep, enduring understanding for multilingual learners. The authors provide language scaffolds for this curriculum to allow all students to develop conceptual understanding and the ability to express it in multiple languages. The book opens with the underpinning theories of learning, offering an accessible overview of the relevant research from cognition, education and multilingualism. It offers examples of concept-based inquiry and translanguaging pedagogy, and proposes a combined approach that addresses the complexities of teaching new language learners. It concludes by addressing the challenges of implementing new curricula and offers advice for school leaders and educators on effective change management.



This practical resource includes sample lesson plans as well as access to videos and teaching materials online, allowing educators to easily adapt ideas to their own context for a more inclusive classroom environment. Designed for pre-service and in-service teachers, end of chapter reflection prompts and activities make this an ideal resource for teacher training and professional development programs.

Juliette van Eerdewijk is an Educational Advisor and Trainer based in the UAE. She has over three decades of leadership experience in education and is a certified Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction trainer. Mindy McCracken is the Primary English as an Additional Language Leader at the International School of the Hague, the Netherlands. She is a Teaching English in Multilingual Classrooms trainer with 20 years of teaching experience in international schools.

Acknowledgments



About the Authors



Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book 



Part 1: Exploring Concepts: Theory to Practice



Chapter 1. How the Brain Works and Develops to Support Learning



Chapter 2. Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction 



Chapter 3. How We Develop High-Achieving Intellectual Individuals



Chapter 4. EAL Theories That Explain Additional Language Learning 



Chapter 5. Educational Approaches for Developing Languages 



Part 2: Concepts in Practice 



Chapter 6. Concept-Based Instruction



Chapter 7. Effective Teaching of English for Multilingual Learners 



Chapter 8. Combining Concept-Based Inquiry and Language Learning Strategies such as Translanguaging



Chapter 9. Planning a Unit of Inquiry with Linguistic Challenges in Mind



Part 3: Challenges and Considerations in Implementation



Chapter 10. Implications for the Change Process



Chapter 11. How We Drive Long-Term Strategic Language Change



Chapter 12. Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Change Process



Chapter 13. Final Thoughts



Glossary



References



Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.2.2026
Verlagsort Bristol
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Didaktik
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-13 9781836682752 / 9781836682752
Zustand Neuware
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